[Teaching at the Institute of Tropical Medicine of the Army Health Service (Le Pharo)]

Specialized education and training in tropical medicine given at I.M.T.S.S.A. aimes at bringing up the medical officers, attached to the Institute for instruction, to the highest possible level of competency to fulfil their duties in tropical zones in general and in particular in their first assignment, sometimes even in rural areas. Therefore, the objectives imparted to the different matters must correspond to the different tasks the newly seconded or posted medical officers will have to perform in tropical zones. In addition, pedagogical evaluation of these objectives and of the guided training, as well as evaluation of the knowledge acquired, are carried out several times during the course of the studies, in order to adapt these three parameters to the means and possibilities available in tropical zones.